Quotes About Truth

Unfortunately, no matter how well you hide, sooner or later your big secret will bite you in the behind, and you might find yourself standing on a telephone pole, not sure why or how you got there, while the neighborhood pretends not to hear your piercing screeches.

And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible.

It wasn't even real. The thing between me and Curran. It wasn't real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my head. Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.

She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses.

You've avoided the answer because it's painful to contemplate.

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

The problem with honesty was that it gave your opponent ammunition to use against you.

You can't smelt happiness out of a lie. The world doesn't work that way.

I had learned that life was a vicious bitch and people were complicated. They lied to themselves.

Every convincing lie had some truth to it.

I could do the punching. Punching was easy. It was the clever banter and dealing in convoluted half-truths and almost-lies that made me want to jump out of my skin.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.

never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

Immanuel Kant

By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

The greatest and perhaps only utility of all philosophy of pure reason is thus only negative, namely that it does not serve for expansion, as an organon, but rather, as a discipline, serves for the determination of boundaries, and instead of discovering truth it has only the silent merit of guarding against errors

I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith. ? Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

probability is a truth, known however through insufficient grounds, the knowledge of which is therefore deficient, but not deceptive [...]

Everything goes past like a river and the changing taste and the various shapes of men make the whole game uncertain and delusive. Where do I find fixed points in nature, which cannot be moved by man, and where I can indicate the markers by the shore to which he ought to adhere?

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Vemos las cosas, no como son, sino como somos nosotros (Kant)